'God' in the Bible

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

(For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

Truly, God does all these things to man, twice and three times,

For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.

Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.

Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.

Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.

God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.

For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

May the Lord give ear to you in the day of trouble; may you be placed on high by the name of the God of Jacob;

We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.

Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.

My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.

Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.

Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all his troubles.

Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my saviour, O Lord God for ever true.

But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.

Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.